Naomi hesitated when she saw her mother’s number come up on her cell phone. Her first instinct – as always – was to avoid the call.
But one thing she’d learned over the past eight months was to face things head-on… most especially the things that she most wanted to duck away from. Her Mom topped that list, no doubt about it.
She grabbed her new eight-month sobriety chip from her purse and squeezed it, drawing strength. This one was red, and she thought that in some ways, it was the most hard-earned one yet. Seeing Matt three or four times a week when he dropped Callie and Noah off was wreaking havoc on her head and her heart.
He never stopped surprising her – in good ways. Despite what Reena and Mitch had told her about his man-whoring ways, she still longed to drop her guard with him,
